Jurassic Rises: Can the writers of the surprisingly good Rise of the Planet of the Apes (above) resuscitate another dead franchise? Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver have been hired to craft a script for Jurassic Park 4, which will attempt to kick-start the series. Multiple scripts have been written for the fourth installment over the past 10 years, but none have been to the satisfaction of Steven Spielberg, who will produce, but not direct, the next film. [Deadline]

Leo’s Dad: If you’re of a certain age, then you first got to know Rob Reiner as an actor (as “Meathead” on the great TV show All in the Family) before he moved behind the camera and established himself as a film director. He’s been absent as a film actor since 2003, but he’s in talks to return in a plum role in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street as the father of Leonardo DiCaprio’s rise-and-fall stockbroker. [The Hollywood Reporter]

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